"Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along."

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Source : House of Commons, 1801

George Canning

#Horse Quotes #Men Quotes #Political Quotes

“I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.”
“All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.”
“People would make fun of me and throw things at me and whatever teenagers do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.”
“I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.”
“Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the bodyâ€™s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. Theyâ€™re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.”

Source : Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House

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